Java developers, meet Heroku

Heroku, the popular Platform-as-a-Service offering initially for Ruby developers only, now supports Java. Actually, Heroku has added support for both the Node.js framework and the Clojure programming language over the past few months, but Java is in a whole other league. If it’s not the world’s most popular programming language, it’s certainly among the most popular — especially among enterprise developers.

Heroku has been gaining credibility among enterprise developers since becoming part of Salesforce.com in December, and part of courting those developers is providing the languages, tools and capabilities that they want. Certainly, though, Java is only part of the journey to woo developers who want to launch their applications in the cloud, as Heroku’s forays into Node.js and Clojure illustrate.